January 1984

She had been back for a month, and she was hanging out with her friends, Nancy, Steve, and Jonathan.

They were at Mike's house, Steve and Nancy were sitting on the couch, Jonathan was sitting on the chair, and she and her friends were sitting on the floor. They were watching a movie, when she saw Nancy and Steve kissing, she thought back to her kiss with Mike.

"Why are they doing that? Why do people…" El asked Jonathan, not knowing what the word was

"They're kissing. People like them do that because they're dating. They're boyfriend and girlfriend."

"Boy-friend, girl-friend? Why would you put extra words to friend?"

"It's people who like each other more than friends."

She nodded, slightly misunderstanding what he meant because she does feel closer to Mike than the others

A week later, they were having a D&D game

They were in the middle of it, it was around six o' clock, El was laying on the couch, watching them play.

"The Thessylhydra comes at you from behind, Dustin your action!"

"Shit, um."

"Cast protection, save yourself." Said Will

"Fine, protection!"

A random thought popped into El's head that she had to ask Mike

"Mike, you're my boy-friend, right?"

He was setting some pieces down, and knocked the board over, Dustin spat out his drink, Lucas gave an 'Oh Shit' look, and Will looked more confused than ever.

"Um, yeah."

He could hear the snickering coming from Lucas, and proceeded to kick his shin

"Hey!"

"Deserved it."

"Wait, I'm confused, what's going on?" Will asked

"Mike has a girlfriend" Lucas said in his most annoying tone

"What? Since when?"

"Basically since they met each other."

Mike rolled his eyes

"Wait, I'm pretty sure you can't be girlfriend-boyfriend without kissing each other, want to certify?" Said Lucas

"But we have kissed." Said El

Mike was hoping she wouldn't bring that up

"What!?" Said Dustin

"When!?" Said Lucas

"In the cafeteria, while you two were obsessing about pudding." Said Mike

"No! Really?" Said Will

And they made fun of him for hours. But he didn't care, for he knew that he wouldn't trade that experience for anything